EDWARDS, Edward (1812-1886) British Museum 1839-1850; 1CL Manchester 1851-1858; Earl of Macclesfield's Library 1860-1863; Queen's College, Oxford 1870-1876; Bodleian Library 1877-1882
Apart from his mostly unsatisfying period at MANCHESTER his professional life was passed mainly as a cataloguer; he otherwise earned his living by authorship. He is remembered, firstly, as the professional adviser of William Ewart (1798-1869) the Parliamentary pioneer of municipal libraries and, secondly, as the author of pioneer works on librarianship and library history, including Memoirs of libraries 2v. (1859): Libraries and founders of libraries (1864) and Free town libraries (1869).
W A Munford Edward Edwards 1963.
Alistair Black, ‘Edwards, Edward (1812–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8535, accessed 24 Nov 2008]
Edward Edwards (1812–1886): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8535
British Museum 1839-1850; 1CL Manchester 1851-1858; Earl of Macclesfield's Library 1860-1863; Queen's College, Oxford 1870-1876; Bodleian Library 1877-1882
Apart from his mostly unsatisfying period at MANCHESTER his professional life was passed mainly as a cataloguer; he otherwise earned his living by authorship. He is remembered, firstly, as the professional adviser of William Ewart (1798-1869) the Parliamentary pioneer of municipal libraries and, secondly, as the author of pioneer works on librarianship and library history, including Memoirs of libraries 2v. (1859): Libraries and founders of libraries (1864) and Free town libraries (1869).
W A Munford Edward Edwards 1963.
Alistair Black, ‘Edwards, Edward (1812–1886)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8535, accessed 24 Nov 2008]
Edward Edwards (1812–1886): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8535